A set of 20 engaging writing prompts tailored for a third-grade boy's interests in baseball, cats, and sharks, featuring slide-based instruction and printable prompt cards for a monthly journal.
A hands-on science and ELA lesson where students explore mystery scents and use descriptive olfactory details to document their observations.
A comprehensive collection of Dolch sight word resources for Pre-Primer through 3rd Grade. Includes structured flashcards with sentences and visuals, progress trackers, and a parent guide.
An Orton-Gillingham based lesson focusing on building and decoding words with 4-5 sounds, including CCVC, CVCC, CCVCC, and digraph blends using short vowels.
A comprehensive fluency lesson focusing on one-syllable silent e words (CVCE) across word, sentence, and paragraph levels. Includes direct instruction scripts, visual aids, and student practice materials.
A collection of high-interest reading passages about video games, designed to improve comprehension and vocabulary for early fourth graders.
A deep dive into the opening chapters of The Little Prince, focusing on the narrator's childhood perspective and his fateful meeting with the prince in the Sahara. Students will analyze academic vocabulary and practice high-level inferential thinking.
A phonics-focused lesson reviewing the vowel teams ea, ew, aw, ou, al, and au through an engaging safari-themed adventure. Students will practice identifying, sorting, and using these sounds in context.
A lesson for 3rd grade students to practice identifying nouns and adjectives through the lens of Native American cultures and nature.
A comprehensive lesson for 3rd and 4th graders on the USE strategy (Understand, Slash, Evidence) to improve multiple-choice accuracy using fiction and science texts.
A decodable reading lesson centered on a story about getting lost at an amusement park, focusing on reading comprehension and safety rules.
A collection of activities focused on developing inference skills using spring-themed content for third-grade students.
A comprehensive lesson for 2nd and 3rd graders on using the present progressive tense. Students will learn the formula for adding -ing to verbs and use helping verbs to describe actions happening right now through a photography-themed exploration.
A lesson focused on morphology where students deconstruct words into prefixes, bases, and suffixes to determine their meanings using a word bank formula.
A week of targeted CVC practice covering blending, initial and final consonant changes, and automaticity.
A series of decodable sentences and activities focusing on closed syllables, VCe patterns, r-controlled vowels, and specific glue sounds (ost, ild, ank, unk). Students will practice blending and reading these patterns in context.
A set of three weekly progress monitoring probes for 2nd-grade literal comprehension, featuring both fiction and informational texts formatted as 'Case Files'.
A comprehensive progress monitoring set for vowel teams ai, ay, ee, ea, and oa. Includes student-facing reading and spelling materials along with teacher-facing scoring and dictation guides.
A 5-day intensive review of Closed, Open, Magic E, Vowel Team, Bossy R, and Consonant -le syllable types, designed for 20-minute intervention blocks.
A comprehensive phonics lesson introducing the diphthongs 'oi' and 'oy' through a fun factory-themed exploration. Students will learn the spelling patterns and rules for when to use each spelling to create the /ɔɪ/ sound.
A foundational phonics lesson focusing on identifying and reading words with the digraphs wh, sh, ch, and ck within a beach-themed narrative. Students will practice oral reading fluency and basic reading comprehension.
A comprehensive lesson on using demonstrative pronouns (this, that, these, those) through the lens of museum curators managing an exhibit. Students learn to distinguish between singular/plural and near/far objects.
The concluding phase of the routine, focusing on the final performance, the resolution of the novel's conflicts, and the lasting changes in Jake and the Applewhites.
The middle phase of the routine, focusing on the development of the play 'The Sound of Music' and the increasing cooperation between the eccentric family members.
The introductory phase of the daily routine, focusing on character introductions, the setting of Wit's End, and the initial clash of personalities between Jake and E.D.
A foundational lesson on common prefixes (un-, re-, pre-, dis-) where students act as 'Word Architects' to build and deconstruct words.
A lesson where students become 'Sense Seekers' to identify sensory language in descriptive text through a mystery-themed game.
A comprehensive introduction to vowel teams using a sports-themed approach. Students will identify, read, and write words with various vowel teams, ranging from simple one-syllable words to more complex two-syllable terms.
A lesson focused on the art of writing sincere thank-you letters, covering the essential components and the emotional impact of expressing gratitude.
In this lesson, students practice identifying the main idea and supporting details in non-fiction texts about natural disasters. They will use a graphic organizer to map out the structure of a passage about earthquakes.
A fast-paced, interactive game where students become 'Sensory Spies' to track down descriptive language in high-interest short story snippets. Students compete to identify sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and textures hidden within case files.
A phonics-focused lesson targeting the /ee/ sound spelled with 'ee' and 'ea' through an engaging deep-sea exploration theme. Includes a high-interest reading passage, word sorting activities, and instructional support.
A 3rd-grade explicit instruction lesson on finding text evidence, following the 'I Do, We Do, You Do' model. Students learn to use a five-step checklist to answer questions about deep sea exploration, focusing on identifying keywords and locating proof in the text.
A comprehensive phonics lesson for bilingual students focusing on the specific vowel contrasts of Long E/Short I and Short A/Short E through multisensory, UDL-aligned activities.
A scaffolded writing lesson designed to help students transition from research notes to a structured three-paragraph essay about the snow leopard. It includes a visual graphic organizer and a sentence-starter drafting sheet.
A lesson focused on transforming animal research notes into cohesive, descriptive paragraphs using structured writing supports like outlines and paragraph frames.